English

Noun

hoky-poky

1. fraudulence or trickery
   • 1876 Benjamin D-------, his little dinner

     And that hoky-poky owner smiled a grim and sordid smile / As he saw his vessel vanish round a corner of the isle !

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 119, "The Candles"

     Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad, is the Ocean, oh!

2. a frozen dairy product
   • 1909 Charter and devised ordinances of Kansas City

     No person, firm or corporation shall see, exchange or deliver, or have in his or their possession with intent to sell, exchange or deliver, any ice cream, ice milk, hoky poky or frozen substance of which milk or cream containing less than twelve (12) per cent of butter fat shall form a component part . . . .